Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 03:03:49 UTC, Manu via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I still think most of those users would accept RC instead of 
> GC. Why not
> support RC in the language, and make all of this library noise 
> redundant?
> Library RC can't really optimise well, RC requires language 
> support to
> elide ref fiddling.

I think a library solution + intrinsic for increment/decrement 
(so they can be better optimized) would be the best option.